Machine for washing clothes



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J. H. ANTHOINE & F. H. THORNDIKE.

MACHINE FOR WASHING CLOTHES, 850.

No. 338,331. 3 P 1 Patented Mar. 23, 1886.

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Wiqessas IgJqtDI s By ad UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH HENRY ANTHOINE AND FRANK HERBERT THORNDIKE, OF WAKE- FIELD,MASSACHUSETTS.

MACHINE FOR WASHING CLOTHES, 800.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 338,331, dated March23, 1886.

Application filed September 19, 1885. Serial No. 177,527.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, J OSEPH HENRY AN- THOINE and FRANK HERBERTTHORNDIKE, of \Nakefield, in the county of Middlesex, of

the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Machines for Washing Clothes, &c.; and we do herebydeclare the same to be described in the following specification andrepresented in the [O accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is atopview, Fig. 2 a front elevation, Fig. 3 an end view, Fig. 4 alougitudinalsection, and Fig. 5 a transverse and median section,ofa machine of ourinvention, the nature of which is defined in the claim hereinafterpresented.

It is to be worked by the hand or hands of a person grasping its handle,the fluted roller being at the time pressed into contact with and rolledback and forth over the article to be washed, such article at the timebeing supported on a washboard.

In the drawings, A denotes a roller fluted lengthwise, and pivoted atits two ends to two metallic brackets, BB, each of which is composed ofa base-plate, a, two flat ears, I) b,eX- tending upward, and anotherear, 0, projecting downward from it. The two ears I) b are parallel toeach other and extend from oppo- 0 site edges of the plateor base. Theear 0 is at a right angle to the plate a, and also with each of the ears1).

Between the pairs of cars b of the two brackets, and fastened to them byheaded screws,

5 is an arched handle, 0, the said screws going through the ears andbeing screwed into the Furthermore, there is over the fluted handle.

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roller, and between it and the brackets, and fastened to each of thelatter by screws f, a guard-plate, D, to prevent the hand, when 0 holdofthe handle, from contact with the fluted roller.

The described machine can be used to great advantage in washing clothesor goods when resting on a wash-board extending within a t-ub.

Ve do not claim washing-machines constructed as represented in theUnited States Patents Nos. 144,118 and 43,279, as in neither of them isthe handle fixed to brackets extending underneath it and up againstopposite sides of it, and also down across the ends of the guard androller, as in our washing-machine.

The brackets ofour washing-machine afford 5 a very firm support to thehandle and guard, and cooperate wit-h the latter to great advantage insustaining the roller and handle under lateral and longitudinal strainswhen the machine is in use.

We claim- In the described washing machine, the combination, with thehandle, guard, and fluted roller, of the two brackets extending betweenthe guard and handle, and up the opposite sides of the latter, and downacross the ends of the guard and roller, and connected to the saidhandle, guard, and roller by screws, all being substantially asrepresented.

JOSEPH HENRY ANTHOINE. FRANK HERBERT THORNDIKE.

\Vitnesses:

JosEPH A. BARKER, WILL E. EATON.

